The Psychopath Code β By Pieter Hintjens [pdf]
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Most backend engineers implement multi-tenant quota checks using a standard "read-then-write" pattern. In production, this pattern is highly unsafe: SELECT grading_scans_remaining FROM profiles; If greater than 0, execute the application logic. UPDATE profiles SET grading_scans_remaining = grad...
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A bunch of companies that I spoke to had their own claude & codex OTel dashboards that showed spend + seats per month. However, none of the dashboards actually analyzed how the engineers worked with the tools and if there were any areas for improvement! That's why I created https://www.
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Production-Ready Pytest You've written solid tests β fixtures keep setup DRY, parametrization makes edge cases explicit, and temporary directories prevent leaked artifacts. Now the question is: how do you run these tests in a way that gives you fast feedback, readable output, and reliability in ...
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Community-led open source project hosting site Codeberg has formally announced that projects whose code is largely or fully machine-generated through LLMs and other βAIβ tools will no longer be welcome.
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My current workflow would be something like: write detailed requirements, ssh into a remote instance, ask an agent to write a plan and giving it free rein to build it there, only pinging me back when it's ready or when it's stuck. I could write code manually in an IDE too but only when the probl...
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Context switching is where engineering productivity goes to die. You're deep in a refactor inside Cursor or Claude Code, logic is flowing, and thenβa notification. A repository grade dropped from an A to a B.
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Hey HN, The code indexing tools released in December now have added capabilities (Rust, Perl support), better token efficiency, easier install method, and a website! The website has a wasm port of the query tool, qi, so you can try it out in the browser. Let me know what you think.
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Log Analytics (The "Observability" Use Case) using AWS servics The Problem: You have 1,000 ECS containers. One of them just crashed. Which one?
What is Infrastructure as Code? Infrastructure as Code (IaC) lets you manage your cloud resources with configuration files instead of clicking around a web console. It is repeatable, versionable, and less error prone.
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